...Running head: HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 1 BUS520 Organizational Leadership October 20, 2011 HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 2 Abstract Business ethics in an organization have become extremely relevant in today’s business society. Graduate schools teach business ethics to prepare leaders and managers to be more responsible. Although ethical issues often arise out of business relationships many companies strive to implement a code of ethics that eliminates room for doubt and place emphasis on the expectations for the company’s culture. HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 3 Discuss how personal differences and preferences can impact organizational ethics. A profound quote that is used by so many is “to thine own self be true,” though this is easily spoken it is not easily able to be done. Being true as defined by moral principles involve character, integrity and self-awareness, this is one reason why many organizations develop core values and policies as their foundation. Hellriegel and Slocum (p. 10, 2011) define ethics as the values and principles that distinguish right from wrong. Personal differences and preferences are based from one’s experience and frame of reference that is developed from birth and linger long into our lives as adults. It is who we are and it’s symbolic of a woven masterpiece handed down from many generations. This impact on organizational ethics can be positive and allow the company’s culture to embrace diversity...
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...Imagine a world with no war, no disease, no pain. Society strives towards an ideal of perfection, Every human advancement is another step towards this ideal that societies play into. Ethical systems and morals construct a path to this perfect world society has envisioned. The United Nation fosters peace between countries to avoid catastrophic nuclear wars and genocide. The Peace Corps works to advance vulnerable third world countries to improve the lives of the people. In a perfect world genocide would never happen. A perfect world does not exist, but if in the future engineers and coders created a virtual reality in which no problems existed I would not willingly submerge myself into illusion. Eudaimonism is a moral philosophy that defines...
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...Assisted Suicide Letithia Terry PHI103: Informal Logic Kurt Mosser June 6, 2011 Assisted Suicide Assisted Suicide is when the physician provides the necessary means or information and the patient performs the act. Euthanasia is where the physician performs the intervention defined as the “act of bringing about the death of a hopelessly ill and suffering person in a relatively quick and painless way for reason of mercy (as cited in Mosser 2010). Physician Assisted Suicide has grown to be a controversial issue and one of the major disputes is; can an incurable ill patient be able to choose Physician assisted suicide? This phenomenal dilemma has risen debates on rather to legalize PAS or keep it illegal because of the different issues concerning the different religion, moral and ethical views people have on the topic. In this essay I will discuss issues of why many people and I believe assisted suicide should be legalized. There are different laws around the world concerning physician assisted suicide and only a few states that has legalized the procedure. In 2005, there were only four places in the world that open and legally authorize assistance in dying patients: “Oregon (since l997, physician-assisted suicide only); Switzerland (1941, physician and non-physician assisted suicide only); Belgium (2002, permits 'euthanasia' but does not define the method and the Netherlands (voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide...
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...However, when Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna he doesn’t do it in anger, Okonkwo does so in mercy his child is calling out to him “My father, they have killed me!” (679) and in this cry for help Okonkwo faces a moral dilemma; does he betray his people and disobey the oracle by trying to save his son. In doing so Okonkwo will damn himself, Ikemefuna and his family to death while bringing misfortune to the entire village. He could turn away from his son and let the elders finish the job they had already failed at and betray his personality or he can finish the job, put his son out of his misery and keep the village happy and safe all at once. Okonkwo could never trust someone else to finish a job after they had already failed once before, and now Igbo man could ever betray the oracle leaving Okonkwo with only one option he must “cut him down”(680). The village elders anger with Okonkwo’s involvement because he was told “That boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death.”(634) but because the Okonkwo’s pride he could not heed to words of his companion, he was an elder and needed to do his job even if he must kill his own...
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...permanently dead. Basically this is saying being a warrior means that if one is faced with the option of life or death the person quickly chooses death.They trust in Bushido that their death is decided by fate and only when the time comes they will be faced with death. Borrow from the wisdom of the past. There will be no excuses that can be taken seriously if you borrow from the wisdom of our elders and of the past, because no matter what circumstances you fall into there has been a person faced with your dilemma and you can learn from the mistakes or decisions. Commit than never waiver. If your mind is set to do something or to accomplish a task and a plan is thought out do not hesitate to do what you believe is right and your instincts will take over as a warrior and the goal will be accomplished. BOOK TWO Never forget the fundamentals. Those who work hard at the practice out of love and passion for what they do tend to get puffed up with pride failing to remember the fundamentals and must stop all extraneous thoughts. There is no better way than to die in battle. As a warrior you must commit yourself to being faced with wars and countless battles you must not wither in the sight of death but race towards it as you are running towards heaven and fight like you are in the presence of God. Right now is that crucial moment and that crucial moment is now. one must treat the present as if this moment in time is a crucial moment, this means we...
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...Hamartia in Oedipus the King According to the Aristotelian characteristics of good tragedy, the tragic character should not fall due to either excessive virtue or excessive wickedness, but due to what Aristotle called hamartia. Hamartia may be interpreted as either a flaw in character or an error in judgement. Oedipus, the tragic character in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, certainly makes several such mistakes; however, the pervasive pattern of his judgemental errors seems to indicate a basic character flaw that precipitates them. Oedipus’ character flaw is ego. This is made evident in the opening lines of the prologue when he states "Here I am myself--you all know me, the world knows my fame: I am Oedipus." (ll. 7-9) His conceit is the root cause of a number of related problems. Among these are recklessness, disrespect, and stubbornness. Oedipus displays an attitude of recklessness and disrespect throughout the play. When he makes his proclamation and no one confesses to the murder of Laius, Oedipus loses patience immediately and rushes into his curse. Later, he displays a short temper to Tiresias: "You, you scum of the earth . . . out with it, once and for all!," (ll. 381, 383) and "Enough! Such filth from him? Insufferable--what, still alive? Get out--faster, back where you came from--vanish!" (ll. 490-492) If an unwillingness to listen may be considered stubbornness, certainly Oedipus would take advice from no one who would tell him to drop the matter of his...
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...standards. W.E.B Du Bois first citied double consciousness in The Souls of Black Folk and his writings signify “how a veil has come to be put over African-Americans, so that others do not see them as they are; African-Americans are obscured in America; they cannot be seen clearly, but only through the lens of race prejudice. Till this very day many African-Americans feel “unwanted” in America. I think back to a news video I saw about a black man named Earl Sampson that was arrested fifty six times and stopped and question 258 times just because he fits the profile of a criminal. Even in this day and age African American’s are still obscured in white America. Claude McKay, a poet utilized the theme of double consciousness to reveal pain of identity crisis felt by the majority of the African Americans. Claude McKay was very interesting poet in the late 1900’s. He was born in Jamaica and was...
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...‘Copernican Revolution’ in the theory of knowledge. He argued that space, time and causality were features of the way our minds organise experience, rather than features of the external world. Kant’s ethical theory was deontological and absolute. We use reason for morality acceptance. His categorical imperatives are part of Kant’s ethical theory, they require the sense of reason (which he believed that a human possess). He believed that if you combined ones duty with goodwill it will result in a moral act. Mixed emotions will not do in a moral situation, you need to exclude all possible emotions to make a perfect moral action. This will then result to summum bonum (an afterlife with God). However, to work out what your duty is, is an ethical dilemma. We can link Kant’s Categorical Imperatives (CI) to euthanasia. Euthanasia is terminating a patients life, painlessly, who is suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. Terminating someone's life can be voluntary (someone helps a person die) or involuntary ( where a patient is capable of ending their own life). Euthanasia can also be passive (food and water deprivation) or active (injected a patient with a medicine which will painlessly kill them). There are many churches and religions which will deny this mercy killing. Natural law followers will believe all life is sacred and we should not just end someone's life. People suffer so that our souls can mature and grow. Without suffering, our soul does not...
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...Throughout the H.B. Fuller case, we learn of an ethical issue tormenting not only the Honduran youth, but the H.B. Fuller subsidiary as well. As poverty swept over the Honduran country, the population slowly felt the repercussions. Thousands of families and their youth were forced out into the streets. With no homes and nowhere to run, they turned to substance abuse. However, this was not just your typical street drug. It was an industrial glue called ‘Resistol.’ The Honduran youth would sniff the glue in order to achieve a high and escape the pain they felt. As the police and media caught sight of this epidemic, the attention turned not to the children, but to the source of the glue: H.B. Fuller. H.B. Fuller was a subsidiary of Kativo Chemical...
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...to improve the individual lives of their clients and patients. Now, learning from our past and looking toward the present, one could argue that the most challenging issue facing the field of occupational therapy today is the often encountered refusal of therapy that results from a lack of desire to seeing improvement at the cost of discomfort. True rehabilitation is completely successful only when the patient or client is committed to seeing the improvement and willing to put in the effort to make it happen in the face of difficulty. Often there is some level of discomfort that is associated with occupational therapy, whether it be as a the physical pain of a shoulder replacement or the emotional pain resulting from pride, which can lead to patients or client choosing to refuse therapy. This presents a moral and ethical dilemma for the occupational practitioner, because the patient or client does have the right to refuse therapy even if it is not what is best for them (Dehghan, Dalvand, Haghgoo, Hosseini, & Karimlou 2013). However, if the occupational therapy practitioner is unable to convey to the patient or client the value in the therapy, there is much that is at stake, namely the patient's or client’s quality of living, the occupational therapy practitioner’s record, and the overall impression of the effectiveness of the occupational therapy field. In spite of this consequences, in the end, the patient or client has to make that choice for their themselves, which prevents...
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...Declaration of Independence, as well, as a Constitution protecting the rights of it’s citizens. Wars have been fought and many people have died so we could have the rights that present today. The freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and most importantly the right to petition our government; all of which fall under the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Our nation’s flag is an everlasting symbol of freedom and hope that stands as a testament to our nation’s power. Most importantly our flag represents the freedom of the individual to express his ideals as they see fit. Therefore when the very essence of Americans freedom is challenged by the “flag amendment,” that would forbid the desecration of the American flag, a dilemma forms. While flag burning is highly offensive, it is none the less a means of expression and is protected by the constitution of America. Forbidding an individual from expressing themselves is the opposite of what our flag represents. By protecting the American flag under a constitutional amendment not only conflicts with the First Amendment, but opens a door for the government to take away even more of our rights. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances...
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...I will practice my profession conscientiously, with dignity, and in keeping with the principles of veterinary medical ethics. I accept as a lifelong obligation the continual improvement of my professional knowledge and competence” (AVMA). The life of another is in your hands, you take an oath to look out for the well-being of animals and to keep them in the best of health. At certain times, a veterinarian may seem like they are getting greedy by suggesting unnecessary diagnostics that don’t pertain to the animals present problem or to give a pet a vaccine that it might not really need. You could be faced with a dilemma when an animal is gravely ill and you would recommend to the owner to do further diagnostics, or advise the owner to make the pet as comfortable as possible with basic care, or suggest humanely euthanizing said animal to not prolong the their suffering. Such an instance may be when a pet has been diagnosed with cancer. Would you suggest to the owner to put their pet through chemotherapy which cost thousands, which may also put the pet through more suffering to just prolong their...
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...for change. So lets act now. Eleanore: We all have experienced discrimination in our everyday lives, may it be a serious one or something that is laughed at the end of the day. But no matter how funny we think about the things we say about others, in some point, we've already offended and caused pain to other people. For me, all we need to do is to be more careful of what we say unto others to prevent things from hurting each other. We are all created equally and I dont see any reason why people should treat each other unfairly. Maybe, what we all need to do is to look at ourselves in the mirror before we start saying mean things to others. These are childish acts that we have brought as we grow older and I guess we all should be mature enough to notice everything that we're doing. We must learn to appreciate others and respect! Kara: When I first got in the area, I’m in doubt if we can make the interview possible. We even mock Aetas along our way to Zambales but during the interview as I saw the sincerity in the eyes of the Aeta, it changed the way I see them. We often think that they are not civilized and we often call them “taga-bundok”. But they are human beings who feel pain and should be respected. As the song goes “it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white”. Llowell: I...
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...Introduction of Johnson &Johnson As a consumer, you’re familiar with the name. The rich heritage brands from their operating companies have helped people around the world, and chances are your own family has trusted their products for generations. Johnson & Johnson is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products in the industry. Their products touch the lives of nearly a billion people every day. Their operating companies around the world compete in consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics markets. With approximately 120,000 employees working in more than 250 companies in 57 countries, Johnson & Johnson has the skills and resources to tackle the world’s most pressing health issues. Few companies have the consistent track record of public trust, annual sales increases, double-digit earnings increases, and steady dividend increases of Johnson & Johnson. Working together across various business segments, Johnson & Johnson believe that they can accelerate growth through a dedicated focus on the intersection of existing capabilities, customer need, and emerging trends. Because of their wide-ranging technological expertise and global presence, cross-business collaborations provide an enormous opportunity to address unmet health care needs and to enhance competitive advantage for their Family of Companies. Success in these markets requires an understanding of local cultures derived only from local experience...
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...Sound Tracks to My Life I wonder if there is such a thing as a good addiction, because I’m sure as hell addicted to music. When I think of music I think of an escape. I can be doing anything at any given moment and put in a pair of head phones and be completely in another world. Without music, my day is completely empty and boring. I wake up to music; I go to school listening to music and even eat to it. Music is a source of joy, stress, tears, camaraderie and fulfillment for me. What would life be without music? The world would be a very quiet place. Music for me is a reminder of how things once were an indication of how things are, and a view of where society is headed. Music is a direct reflection of the picture of society. Music can be a way to deliver messages, a poetic medium, a fine art, or nothing more than a source of entertainment. No matter what it is used for, music is the perfect art and my life would be that much less complete without it. Two songs come to mind when I think about all these sources of completeness for myself. First is “Proud to Be an American” by Lee Greenwood and “You and Me” by Soldier of Jah Army. I often think of the words of Lee Greenwood’s song “God Bless the USA” in which he states:”And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free....” I wholeheartedly agree. My heart swells with gratitude to God and this wonderful land where, regardless of whom I am or what my goals are, I have that priceless gift of freedom. Freedom to...
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